26th April - Penn 127 all out 49.5 overs lost to Milford Hall 128-4 42.4 overs

Once again Penn lost the toss. The dreaded £2 coin!!! We were put in to bat and started off very slowly but did not lose many wickets. Ghazi Zaki stuck with it on a tough wicket to bat, tight bowling did not help but he batted 43 overs for 29, a good effort. The idea was to bat around him. Simon Eaton (13) fought well for 23 overs but the runs weren't coming too fluently. In steps S.Turner and blasts a lovely 25 runs in no time and at this point we were stepping up the pace. As he fell this brought to the wicket D.Gibson (37) who played some sublime shots all around the ground and guided us past 100 off 45 overs, ending up on 127 was a valiant effort against a team that has won the league the past 3 years.
With something to bowl at,  J.Rudge (3-46) and D.Gibson (1-28)  got us off to a good start and we took wickets at regular intervals. R.Ball (0-24) and A.Bhogal (0-18) put up some resistance and kept the runs down and T.Howard bowled a nice line towards the end and looks to be a good prospect. Unfortunately no points to bring back but we fought well against a very good team. Well done boys

19th April - Penn 3rd XI 257-9 dec. Tettenhall Wergs College 75 all out

A bad start from the skipper losing the toss, and Penn were put into bat so maximum points were at stake. A 1:30pm start at Mount Road saw the Penn openers get a great start getting 65 and 61respectively . This gave us a good solid start to the innings. Unfortunately not all of the team took advantage of time in the middle but Lee Homer survived an early L.B.W shout and went on to get 50. As we passed the 240 mark, a young promising player came to the crease and played three beautiful shots each reaching the boundary. Richard Kimberlin looks like a promising star and this year will shine. This was just the start of a good all round display for the youngster. Penn declared on 257-9 off 42.3 overs which gave us 57 overs to bowl a young Tettenhall Wergs College team.  Bhogal and Richard Kimberlin came later to the bowling attack and both got 3 wickets for hardly any (Bhogal 3-6 and Kimberlin 3-7). Kimberlin topping off a superb performance on possibly the coldest day of the year, all out for 75 for the full 25 points.

2007 Match reports